• @can@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    80
    edit-2
    2 years ago

    “The robots are constantly monitored and equipped with 12 cameras and two-way audio communication systems. Any improper conduct will be detected immediately. If an incident does occur with a Starship robot, one of our robot rescuers can respond quickly,” robot builder Starship Technologies says regarding robot safety, adding that acts of vandalism or theft are reported to authorities.

    While that may be true in theory, instances of actual prosecution for theft from robots in cities where they operate have not been easy to discover. As with far more widespread instances of front porch package thieves or shoplifters, despite the volume of video evidence the robots can produce the police have to actually take some investigative steps to identify and locate the suspects

    I’m glad they’ve thought this through.

    • @Skullgrid@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      792 years ago

      the police have to actually take some investigative steps to identify and locate the suspects

      cops give zero fucks when crimes effect everyday citizens.

    • @jscummy@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      6
      edit-2
      2 years ago

      How dare they expect cops to “take some investigative steps?” We’ll arrest the criminals when you bring them in for us, along with evidence.

  • @Redditiscancer789@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    822 years ago

    What a pathetic bunch of people trying to maintain the slave status quo in these comments. WHY are you fighting to maintain a world where people have to work low tier bull shit jobs to survive? The answer, you morons, is to let the robots be and improve society to the point technology said it would. We re the most productive we’ve ever been in our entire history yet work more than any other time in history. We need work reform, not a robot genocide.

    • @Sarsoar@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      342 years ago

      In an ideal world these robots would shift to there not being a need for “unskilled labor” and we would all have more leisure time. In the late stage capitalistic hellhole we are forced to live in, huge organization replace minimum wage jobs with robots and hoard profits and push people further unto poverty, while still overworking and underpaying the few people they do still employ.

      If we had a ubi, then robots and self checkouts taking minimum wage jobs wouldn’t be an issue because the person who’s job was taken isn’t just displaced and faces homelessness or death.

      So I sympathize with the people who are complaining about the robots. As much as I want a scifi future with a bunch of automation, I want exploitation of the lower class to end first.

      • @Redditiscancer789@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        102 years ago

        Which is literally what my comment says, it’s a work reform problem not a robot problem. This is literally exhausting your anger and energy on the wrong thing. Do you really think destroying some robots will change society?

      • @funchords@lemmy.sdf.org
        link
        fedilink
        English
        12 years ago

        The unemployment rates in the USA and Canada are both far below norms. These robots aren’t taking anyone’s irreplaceable job. Of all the things they are (ugly, intrusive, annoying), one of the things they’re not doing is driving up unemployment. At worst, someone has to change jobs.

    • @GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      22 years ago

      let the robots be and improve society to the point technology said it would. We re the most productive we’ve ever been in our entire history yet work more than any other time in history. We need work reform, not a robot genocide.

      I am in agreement with you, but the problem is the work reform part is not forthcoming. The delivery robots didn’t come with a helping of any kind of labor reform, whatsoever, and will not come with one either without some kind of violence to usher in the deal. The capitalist class would not allow it to happen any other way.

        • @graphite@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          12 years ago

          Where is the “commie garbage”?

          People here are making valid complaints about the state of society.

          Most people know that communism isn’t the answer.

          • @ARg94@lemmy.packitsolutions.net
            link
            fedilink
            English
            02 years ago

            Mostly everyone who says taking someone else’s property is okay if you feel they deserve it, or the seller deserves it. If you don’t see a huge commie bent here, then I would assume it’s because you are a commie or are commie-adjacent. For real, maybe I’ve just stumbled on the perfect mix, but I’m finding lemmy to be rife so far.

            • @graphite@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              1
              edit-2
              2 years ago

              Mostly everyone who says taking someone else’s property is okay if you feel they deserve it

              I don’t think that’s ok. Humans need their space, man.

              If you don’t see a huge commie bent here, then I would assume it’s because you are a commie or are commie-adjacent

              I see a moderate and a left bent here. Both of those I vibe with, but the left isn’t synonymous with communism or even marxism.

              And there’s also idealism, of course - there’s plenty of that everywhere on the Internet.

              My view of the left is that they want an infra that’s more aligned with the EU or Scandanavia.

              That’s definitely not communism. NK is communist, and there are very few people who want NK.

      • @Redditiscancer789@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        12 years ago

        If you truly believe that it still makes 0 sense to use the violence against the robots who have 0 idea why they’re being attacked and even when destroyed change nothing(because destroying these won’t stop companies from making better more lethal versions).

        • @GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          English
          12 years ago

          When I said violence I don’t mean against the robots (which you can damage but not commit violence against). It’s just a computer on wheels. I meant that labor reform will involve violence between people in the labor class and the capital class. Our American history is full of examples of exactly this kind of thing happening between a protest labor movement and its countervailing force.

    • ax1900kr
      link
      fedilink
      English
      -13
      edit-2
      2 years ago

      Low income white neighborhoods have lower crime rates than black middle/high income neighborhoods. There is no more blind person that the one who doesnt want to see.

    • @WoodlandAlliance@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      52 years ago

      Fucking right? This hurts literally nobody. You know what I’m going to do when I see people who need to survive by taking from these robots? Exactly nothing.

  • @gamebird@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    52 years ago

    My brain assumed from the title that this would actually be about robot porch pirates now prowling the neighbourhood. I’m thankful we’re not there… yet.

  • El Barto
    link
    fedilink
    English
    142 years ago

    At least we’ve moved on from killing them in the street.

    Poor hitch-hiking bot.

  • @Heisme@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    842 years ago

    Everyday we are one step closer to the plot of Demolition Man. I cannot wait to taste some boosted Taco Bell.

      • @Followupquestion@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        192 years ago

        They’re bidet controls. One would be for front wash, another for rear wash, and the third one for air dry. There may be temperature controls hidden somewhere nearby, or more likely the system recognizes the user and automatically uses those temperature settings, and the seashells are just gussied up push buttons.

  • @willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    4
    edit-2
    2 years ago

    These robots are a hazard and a nuisance to the pedestrians. I won’t shed a single tear for these tincans on wheels. I would not order one of these either.

    • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏
      link
      fedilink
      English
      12 years ago

      You don’t get to choose if your order is delivered by one… these have been in operation worldwide since 2014, alongside traditional delivery drivers

        • @deranger@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          92 years ago

          “Cogs” - did you really just use a slur they invented for Deus Ex game as a real slur? Gonna call them clanks and hanzers too?

          Even if you did, you realize those are in universe slurs and indicate the person is ignorant, right?

          • Echo Dot
            link
            fedilink
            English
            02 years ago

            Without that context the above comment is deranged.

  • janus2
    link
    fedilink
    English
    132 years ago

    “you wouldn’t -d̵o̵w̵n̵l̵o̵a̵d̵- drone-rob a pizza…”

    • Rose56
      link
      fedilink
      English
      62 years ago

      Sitting behind garbage bean with my Anti drone to rob a pizza.

      • janus2
        link
        fedilink
        English
        02 years ago

        Looks like it does! Your double ~~ are rendering strikethrough for me (Jerboa)

        I had searched it up but didn’t find it and just went with a shitty ASCII overlay haha

  • @metallic_substance@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    47
    edit-2
    2 years ago

    For me, this falls neatly into the “who fucking cares?” category. These things are deployed in very few cities overall and if the technology is ready for wide-release, you better have a more effective defense against theft than you already do if they are already being stolen from

      • @ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        22 years ago

        It’s not like these are high paying, highly desired jobs being replaced by robots. These are shit jobs that are a waste of time and talent to have done by humans.

        • Echo Dot
          link
          fedilink
          English
          32 years ago

          These are shit jobs that are a waste of time and talent to have done by humans. I don’t know. I’ve met some humans who are definitely not talented enough for package delivery. Most of them working package delivery.

          I’m sorry I couldn’t be bothered to deliver your parcel to your house, so here’s a picture of my foot.

          • @ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            12 years ago

            Just because someone doesn’t give a shit about their useless job, doesn’t mean they don’t have useful talents in other areas.

          • @ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            12 years ago

            I would rather have these people painting, making music, cleaning up polluted rivers, basically anything that is useful to humanity that can’t be done by robots. If it can be done by a robot, it should be. Keeping jobs from being automated just to keep people busy is insanity to me. If society has to find this kind of work to allow people to survive, so be it.